TPM Reader MT can’t hold back …
The “controversy” around President Obama’s 1990 speech at Harvard on the occasion of the late Professor Bell’s decision to take a leave of absence to protest Harvard’s hiring practices is shameful in what it implies (full disclosure — Professor Bell taught me Constitutional Law at NYU during his self-imposed exile from Harvard).
Back in September Ed Fry, an Occupy movement lawyer from Santa Cruz, California, put up a $35,000 bond on behalf of homeless Anonymous hacker “Commander X” (aka Christopher Doyon).
Now Commander X has absconded to Canada and the Feds want Fry to pay up.
Who says Mitt Romney can’t appeal to southern voters.
The man likes grits, and he’ll tell you so.
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Ken Ard will now have a lot more free time to polish his Playstation skills.
The Republicans had an awful mid-term election in 1982 and Ronald Reagan cruised to a historic landslide two years later in 1984. A rebounding economy was a huge factor in the change. Is something even remotely similar going to happen with Barack Obama in 2012? Here’s a really important chart showing the similarities and differences between the economic trajectory during the two periods. Take a look.
For most of this campaign cycle Rick Santorum has been one of the least disliked Republican presidential candidates. This year especially he’s only been slightly underwater in terms of favorability and he was briefly in net positive territory. But around the 20th of last month that began to change in a big way, which is right about where the ‘snob’/digs at college education story started to hit. (There were actually a few things — robocalls to Dems, whack at JFK, comments about church and state, etc.)
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Why the turn to Southern primaries comes just at the wrong time for Mitt Romney.